EU/ROMANIA: Romanians pick up food portfolio at Brussels 

Romania has been awarded the powerful agriculture portfolio in a proposed new European Commission, with former agriculture minister Dacian Ciolos formally proposed to take over from Mariann Fischer Boel.

UK: Tory think-tank attacks monopoly of 'Big Four' (MEM)

The UK’s major supermarkets should be broken up to stop them monopolising the market place, a leading adviser to the Conservative Party said yesterday (26 November).

UK/DENMARK: Hilton to supply Coop Danmark (REG)

UK meat group Hilton Food Group has struck a deal to supply Danish retailer Coop Danmark.

• Top stories on just-food this week
  GM waded back into view this week with a report from the UK's Food Standards Agency detailing consumers' current wishes on the issue. Formal appointments were made for the European Commission, including a new agriculture chief, while Waitrose boss Mark Price was named as a contender for the top job at Morrisons. And Bakkavor and Greencore, two key players in private label, issued their latest numbers and claimed the market was seeing a recovery in convenience food. These were the top ten stories on just-food this week.
• Quote, unquote: just-food's week in words
  With just a month left of 2009, our thoughts are turning to what shape the food industry landscape will take as we enter a new decade. This week, HJ Heinz, meat giant Tyson Foods and Russian dairy business Wimm-Bill-Dann all issues their prognosis for the economy and consumer confidence. Woolworths Ltd, Australia's largest retailer, claimed the country was in better shape than other economies around the world, while in an exclusive interview with just-food, Greencore boss Patrick Coveney detailed how the private-label group had navigated the downturn.
• TAIWAN: McCain to sell Taiwanese facility (MEM)
  Canadian frozen food company McCain Foods is to sell its Taiwanese manufacturing plant to speciality Taiwanese food processer Sinkung.
• This week's Wispas on Cadbury
  As speculation over Cadbury's future mounted this week, UK union officials held what they described as "constructive" talks with Kraft Foods this week, despite leaving without concrete assurances on UK production. Meanwhile, shares in the Dairy Milk maker jumped on reports that Nestle might be considering a bid and, while rumours mounted of a potential move from Hershey, the UK confectionery giant insisted that the value of any bid - rather than the identity of the bidder - would be its prime consideration.
• FRANCE: LDC coy over Marie disposals (MEM)
  LDC, the French poultry group, has insisted that it has made no decision on whether it would offload part of ready-meal unit Marie, which the company bought two months ago.
• TURKMENISTAN: EBRD to fund retail chain (MEM)
  The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to invest US$1.9m in the establishment of a retail chain in Turkmenistan.
• IRELAND: Glanbia director announces retirement (REG)
  Glanbia, the Irish food group, has announced that director and vice-chairman John Fitzgerald is to retire.

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The EU hopefuls

The food and drink industries of the ten countries that joined the European Union in 2004 have been transformed by this expansion of Europe’s borderless market. Food and drink companies and markets in the countries that joined the EU on 2007, Bulgaria and Romania, are facing a similar transformation. But what of the countries that are still knocking on the door of the EU for future membership? How will their food and drink sectors fare, assuming their countries are admitted. And how could this further expansion impact on the EU’s existing food and drink sectors? Here we investigate and analyse the potential results of more EU expansion.

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